In general, ink types and a list of their applications are provided on colourcards by individual manufacturers or their dealer network. These inks are usually supplied by specialized ink manufacturers, or formulated by the user. SPECIAL FORMULATION inks, which can include conductive metals, acid resists, adhesives, or ground glass, are used when screen printing is being used as part of an industrial process. In other words, brand x 'bright red' is not the same as brand y, and definitely not the same as some watercolour paint set or a magic marker.
#Silkscreen ink code
Solvent-based, water-based, plastisols, and UV inks are the most common lines, and within these Lines, different TYPES of inks are available for different substrates.Ī COLOUR SYSTEM unique to each manufacturer is also common, with the colours having different names and code numbers, available in each of the manufacturers' lines and types of ink. Manufacturers produce inks in LINES that are based on the thinning and drying characteristics of the ingredients used in the clear resin or binder which makes up the bulk of the ink. Many manufacturers produce a multi-purpose ink that will work well on a range of different materials. Many different manufacturers make inks specifically designed to bond to various plastics, papers, glass, metal, or whatever you are trying to print. Job number 1 for any ink is to stick to the substrate, and it follows that due to the many different materials screen printers have to print, and their different molecular make-ups, there are a large assortment of different ink TYPES.
#Silkscreen ink plus
Without getting all technical, inks are made up of a carrier or base, which is a thick clear resin-type liquid, plus finely ground pigments or minerals for colour, and different thinners used to make the ink flow. Art prints on paper use a different ink than t-shirts, which is different than on decals or plastics, which is different than glass or ceramics, which is different than electrically conductive, which is… you get the picture. Inks used in screen printing are more varied and complex than those used in other printing processes because of the wide range of different materials the modern screenprinter is asked to print on. Here for sharing screen printing knowledge only.
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